Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising during the House debate last week on the $1.6 billion military construction bill, Illinois Republican Leslie Arends wrinkled his long nose at the scent of one particular section. What he objected to was some finicky fine print giving Congress veto power over Defense Department efforts to get out of such nonmilitary ventures as operating ice-cream plants, laundries, dry-cleaning plants...
...Received Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 37, eager beaver New Jersey Republican candidate for governor, and his photogenic family (four sons, aged four to ten, and two-year-old daughter Moira). Forbes's visit came at his own urgent request only three weeks after his Democratic opponent, Governor Robert Meyner, had at the Governors' Conference edged his way into pictures with Honor Guest Eisenhower for the benefit of the folks back home...
...once again] more than a word," the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star cried happily in mid-1955 when John Baker Hollister, 64, onetime law partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was named to coordinate U.S. foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration...
Outmaneuvered, the organization leaders accepted Almond rather than a factional fight. Reason: a healthy respect for Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, the Republican national committeeman who four years ago threw the fear of G.O.P. into the Byrd organization by winning an unprecedented 45% of the vote against Governor Stanley...
...best friends doubt that the community can support two dailies-and fear for the $300,000 Citizen's chances in an all-out war with the $2,800,000 News. Nonetheless, Citizen staffers (who have been promised union contracts) are confident that a progressive, middle-of-the-road Republican paper modeled faithfully on the oldtime News cannot fail. "If we can't survive with the kind of help everyone is giving us," said Editor Barton, "then we're just poor newspapermen...